Preamble

The House met at half-past Nine o'clock

PRAYERS

[MR. SPEAKER in the Chair]

Mr. Speaker: It may be for the convenience of the House if I indicate that after calling on all hon. Members in the Chamber to take the Oath of to Affirm I shall suspend the Sitting until 11 am. That will be the last occasion today. On Wednesday next I shall be in the Chair from 2.30 pm.

Members Sworn

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Ronald Timothy Renton, esquire, Mid-Sussex.
Jeremy William Bray, esquire, Motherwell South.
Bruce Thomas George, esquire, Walsall, South.
John Laurence Garrett, esquire, Norwich, South.
Angela Claire Rosemary, Mrs. Rumbold, CBE, Mitcham and Morden.
Christopher Robert Chope, esquire, OBE, Southampton, Itchen.
Rober Arthur McCrindle, esquire, Brentwood and Ongar.
Robert Thomas Boscawen, esquire, MC, commonly called the honourable Robert Thomas Boscawen, Somerton and Frome.
Alfred William Wiggin, esquire, TD, Weston-super-Mare.
James Wilton Spicer, esquire, West Dorset.
Julian Michael Shersby, esquire, Uxbridge.
Andrew Francis Bennett, esquire, Denton and Reddish.
Sydney Brookes Chapman, esquire, Chipping Barnet.
Alexander Eadie, esquire. BEM, Midlothian.
Right honourable Merlyn Rees, Morley and Leeds, South.
Nicholas Paul Scott, esquire, MBE, Chelsea.
Sir John Giles Dunkerley Shaw, Pudsey.
Right honourable Sir Peter Allan Renshaw Blaker, KCMG, Blackpool, South.
Jonathan William Patrick Aitken, esquire, South Thanet.
Colin Berkeley Moynihan, esquire, commonly called the honourable Colin Berkeley Moynihan, Lewisham, East.
Alexander Charles Carlile, esquire, QC, Montgomery.
Douglas Martin Hogg, esquire, commonly called the honourable Douglas Martin Hogg. Grantham.
William David Madel, esquire, South-West Bedfordshire.
Sydney James Bidwell, esquire, Ealing, Southall.
Keith John Charles Bradley, esquire, Manchester, Withington.
Simon Henry Ward Hughes, esquire, Southwark and Bermondsey.
Andrew James MacKay, esquire, East Berkshire.
David Neil Macfarlane, esquire, Sutton and Cheam.
Right honourable John Paul Stanley, Tonbridge and Malling.
Sir Dudley Gordon Smith, Warwick and Leamington.
Andrew Robert Frederick Hunter, esquire, Basingstoke.
Rupert William Simon Allason esquire, Torbay.
Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames, esquire, commonly called the honourable Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames, Crawley
Richard Thain Alexander, esquire, Newark.
Emma Harriet Nicholson, Torridge and West Devon.
Right honourable Richard Napier Luce, Shoreham.
Timothy John Smith, esquire, Beaconsfield.
Timothy John Crommelin Eggar, esquire, Enfield, North.
Right honourable David John Denzil Davies, Llanelli.
Greville Ewan Janner, esquire, QC, commonly called the honourable Greville Ewan Janner, Leicester, West.
William Nigel Paul Cash, esquire, Stafford.
James Theodore Lester, esquire, Broxstowe.
John Gordon Hannam, esquire, Exeter.
John Ambrose Cope, esquire, Northavon.
Alastair Robertson Goodlad, esquire, Eddisbury.
Robert George Banks, esquire, Harrogate.
Right honourable Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie, Chertsey and Walton.


Richard Patrick Tracey, esquire, Surbiton.
Geoffrey Lofthouse, esquire, Pontefract and Castleford.
William O'Brien, esquire, Normanton.
Robert Adrian Hicks, esquire, South-East Cornwall.
Alfred Cecil Walker, esquire, Belfast, North.
James Mackay Cousins, esquire, Newcastle upon Tyne, Central.
Roger Denis Moate, esquire, Faversham.
Derek John Fatchett, esquire, Leeds, Central.
John Dominic Battle, esquire, Leeds, West.
Sir John Marcus Fox, MBE, Shipley.
Jack Heywood Aspinwall, esquire, Wansdyke.
Right honourable Peter Norman Fowler, Sutton Coldfield.
Cecil Simon Franks, esquire, Barrow and Furness.
Archibald Gavin Hamilton, esquire, commonly called the honourable Archibald Gavin Hamilton, Epsom and Ewell.
Sir George Samuel Knatchbull Young, Baronet, Ealing, Acton.
Robert John Maxwell-Hyslop, esquire, Tiverton.
John Crocket Bowis, esquire, Battersea.
Right honourable Norman Stewart Hughson Lamont, Kingston upon Thames.
Right honourable John Major, Huntingdon.
Hugo Hawksley Fitzthomas Summerson, esquire, Walthamstow.
Graham Edward Galloway Riddick, esquire, Colne Valley.

Mr. Speaker: The sitting is suspended until 11 o'clock.

11 am

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law

Sir Julian Errington Ridsdale, CBE, Harwich.
Norman Alexander Miscampbell, esquire, QC, Blackpool North.
Richard Lewis Page, esquire, South-West Hertfordshire.
Bowen Wells, esquire, Hertford and Stortford.
Ronald Leighton, esquire, Newham, North-East.
Charles Peter Kennedy, esquire, Ross, Cromarty and Skye.
William McKelvey, esquire, Kilmarnock and Loudoun.
Antony Rivers Marlow, esquire, Northampton, North.
Mostyn Neil Hamilton, esquire, Tatton.
Keith Hampson, esquire, Leeds, North-West.
John Denis Fraser, esquire, Norwood.
Humfrey Jonathan Malins, esquire, Croydon, North-West.
Dr. the Right Honourable David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Plymouth, Devonport.

ADJOURNMENT

Resolved,
That this House do now adjourn till Wednesday 24 June.—[Mr. Lennox-Boyd.]

Adjourned accordingly at half-past Eleven o'clock.